In 1957, Dwight Eisenhower was in the White House, America was in a post-war boom, and television was becoming the medium of mass communication. It was that year when 32-year-old Dick Van Dyke made his television debut on The Phil Silvers Show.

Dick Van Dyke as Bert in Mary Poppins and Mr Dawes in Mary Poppins Returns edit

Credit: Disney

Dick Van Dyke would kick around television for a few years, making appearances on Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Look Up and Live, and The Jack Benny Program. 

It wouldn’t

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